THE difference between facts, and truth, is that facts vary from place to place, time to time, and person to person, while truth is unchanging and unchangeable. This is the case as it regards health. Here are a few examples of health facts. Before the Twentieth Century, the use of leeches was considered beneficial for health, and was a popular form of treatment for several ailments. By the Twentieth Century however, this form of treatment was considered unscientific, even harmful, and was shunned by the medical profession, as a credible form of treatment. Yet, in an interesting turn of events, more recently, the use of leeches in medicine has begun to regain a considerable degree of approval in plastic surgery.

Again, in some countries, heat is considered the best therapy for treating a swelling, or fever, while in another country, ice and cold presses would be employed for the same type of symptoms. In other instances, a case that one medical professional may consider incurable, another may deem a minor ailment. Research once concluded that certain substances in food, such as egg yolk, chocolates or alcohol were inimical to health, while newer research is reversing that opinion. Such is the nature of health facts. It therefore becomes obvious that facts about health are not reliable at all.

In order to discover the truth about health, it is imperative to start with the source of all that is immutable or unchanging. Most would agree that, given the changeability of human nature, the right place to seek for the truth about health would be the spiritual, the source of which is divine, Many individuals of faith agree that God is the immutable source of spiritual qualities. The word ‘Truth’ is usually accepted to be a quality, attribute, and even a synonym of God. Reasoning practically on the subject, the conclusion can only be that the truth about health is that it is good, because God is good. God does not create, support or approve of disease. Deeper reasoning also reveals that God cannot even know disease, since ‘He is of purer eyes than to behold evil’. His absolute purity prevents knowledge of anything contrary to His perfect, holy nature, yet God is all-knowing. As radical as this may sound, it is true; and more and more, this truth is being proved to be true. A point of interest is that the word ‘health’ has its roots in the word ‘wholeness’ or ‘holiness’.
Many people around the world are deciding to entrust their health to God, and they are finding, not only healing, but more importantly, they are finding that even the liability to be ill, is reducing.

In Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, the author, Mary Baker Eddy, a Christian healer, whose astonishing record of healing reverberated around the world in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries writes: ‘God, good, can no more produce illness than good can cause evil and health occasion disease’. She says further that man is not thoroughly healed until the liability to be ill is removed. Her Christian method of spiritual healing continues to be practised with significant success around the world today. That said, it is entirely up to the individual to choose to go with the facts, or stay with the truth about health. It requires spiritual discipline to stay with the truth, but the reward is that all who choose this path, find that it has beneficial and practical effects on health.

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